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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 3h

Big thanks to Nicolas Di Caterina, Nicolas Roman Posner, Alonely0, Pantamis, Amaso, Wilson Miller, and Lesley Lai.

Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 3h

This Week's Rust Challenge 🦀

Given a vector of integers, return the index i such that the sum of all elements to the left of i equals the sum of all elements to the right of i. If multiple such indices exist, return the middlemost one (closest to the center). If none exist, return -1.

#rust

Rust Infrastructure Engineer (Europe)

Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 9h

The Rust Foundation is hiring a Rust Infrastructure Engineer — remote, full-time, Europe-based 🇪🇺

💰 ~€85K (negotiable)
🧰 Work on the core infra that powers Rust itself
⏰ Apply by Oct 26, 2025

Know a Rustacean? Tag 'em!
#rust #programming #rustang
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The Rust Foundation was formed in 2021 as an independent, non-profit organization to serve as a steward of the Rust programming language and its users, maintainers, and enterprise advocates. Since…

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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 21h

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Today’s Issue: Making Rust’s Reference Counting Friendlier, Jon Gjengset Chats with JetBrains, and a Look at Effects in Rust

GitHub - OpenDevicePartnership/patina: Patina Firmware

Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 21h

Patina is a Rust implementation of UEFI firmware.

The goal of this project is to replace core UEFI firmware components in Pure Rust as opposed to Rust wrappers around core implementation still written in C.

#rust #rustlang #programming

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Patina Firmware. Contribute to OpenDevicePartnership/patina development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 1d

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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 1d

It will destroy GNU/Linux

#rust #rustlang #programming

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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 2d

This project was featured in the 88th issue of the Rust Bytes Newsletter—check it out below 👇
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Today’s Issue: Making Rust’s Reference Counting Friendlier, Jon Gjengset Chats with JetBrains, and a Look at Effects in Rust

GitHub - typst/typst: A new markup-based typesetting system that is powerful and easy to learn.

Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 2d

Also to be noted is that Typst has friendly errors, and when things go wrong, it tells you why, in plain English. Revolutionary, right?

Typst is open-source on GitHub at github.com/typst/typst.

A new markup-based typesetting system that is powerful and easy to learn. - typst/typst

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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 2d

- Built-in everything - Math, bibliographies, scripting, it’s all included out of the box. No endless \usepackage scavenger hunts.

Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 2d

- Simple markup, powerful logic - You can go from headings to recursive Fibonacci tables without leaving your .typ file.

Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s why developers love Typst:

- Blazing-fast compilation - Incremental builds mean your document updates in real time. No more coffee breaks between edits.

Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 2d

LaTeX veterans know the drill, miss one curly brace, and suddenly your bibliography vanishes into the void.

Typst fixes that with a modern syntax, human-readable markup, and instant feedback, so you can focus on content, not debugging.

Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 2d

This Week's Project Spotlight 💡

Typst
If you’ve ever wrestled with LaTeX and thought, “There has to be an easier way”, Typst is that way.

The problem Typst is tackling is simple but painful: writing beautiful, structured documents shouldn’t feel like deciphering cryptic compiler errors.

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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 2d

Me using unsafe to bypass the borrow checker 🦀

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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 2d

Read our latest issue 88 🦀

#rust #rustlang #programming
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Today’s Issue: Making Rust’s Reference Counting Friendlier, Jon Gjengset Chats with JetBrains, and a Look at Effects in Rust

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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 3d

This listicle is part of our weekly newsletter 👇
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Today’s Issue: Making Rust’s Reference Counting Friendlier, Jon Gjengset Chats with JetBrains, and a Look at Effects in Rust

Preventing Invalid Database Access At Compile Time

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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 3d

10. Preventing Invalid Database Access At Compile Time demonstrates how to use Rust’s type system to prevent invalid database writes by distinguishing read-only and writable connections, catching misuse at compile time instead of runtime.
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Using the type system to block invalid database access.

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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 3d

9. Worakarn Isaratham from Agoda Engineering wrote why Agoda’s Feature Store runs faster and safer now that they’ve bet big on Rust.
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Effects in Rust (and Koka)

Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 3d

8. Aloso’s Effects in Rust (and Koka) compares Rust’s ownership and type system with Koka’s expressive effect system, and debates ongoing Rust efforts such as keyword generics to support async, const, and fallible behavior more seamlessly.
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What is an effect system? According to Wikipedia, it is a formal system that describes the computational effects of computer programs, such as side effects. It is also an extension of a type system,…

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Async Rust with Tokio I/O Streams: Backpressure, Concurrency, and Ergonomics

Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 3d

7. Viacheslav Biriukov wrote Async Rust with Tokio I/O streams, demonstrating how blocking writes affect reads, how TCP backpressure emerges, and practical patterns to handle cancellation gracefully in complex async loops.
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Async Rust with Tokio I/O Streams: Backpressure, Concurrency, and Ergonomics # Last updated: Oct 2025 Contents 1 Async Rust with Tokio IO Streams: Backpressure, Concurrency, and Ergonomics…

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Rust 2025: Most Loved, Least Adopted (Until Now)

Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 3d

6. Jon Gjengset (author of Rust for Rustaceans) interviewed with JetBrains and talked about Rust, 400K salaries, AI, defense, and the ecosystem. [video]
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What’s next for Rust in 2025? In this in-depth interview, Jon Gjengset (Rust educator, MIT PhD, and author of Rust for Rustaceans) discusses how Rust salaries are reaching $400,000, how AI is…

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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 3d

5. Paweł Urbanek shows how to catch your Rust app slacking off with automatic performance profiling. No more manual detective work.
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How to automatically Profile Performance of Rust Applications

Rust is blazingly fast - until you're trying to understand why your own code isn’t. In this post, I'll present a new way to profile Rust applications. hotpath is a recently released Rust crate that…

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